The Senate approved a $4.5 billion Child Nutrition Act that channels money into the American school system over the next decade in order to provide nutritious meals to children and free/reduced-cost meals to children of low-income families. This is the first major accomplishment for Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign. I give a standing ovation to the Senate for passing this into law and keep my fingers crossed that the House will do the same. Finally, we are focusing our national finances on the people who really need it most -- our children. Not only is this a huge step towards fighting the childhood obesity epidemic but it is also implementing healthy routines into a population of Americans who will learn to make nutritious choices early on.

I believe this Act will drop the statistics for fad dieting and eating disorders. Being a teenager is hard enough; there are so many decisions to make and it is incredibly easy to make unhealthy choices. Therefore, Congress is stepping in to make things a little bit better for this generation of children.

Schools will be doing their part for lunchtime meals and with vending machine makeovers. As parents, do your part to help the Act by talking about proper nutrition and making healthy meals a routine at breakfast and dinner. Hopefully in 10 years, the childhood obesity epidemic will be behind us.